322 PRIEST AND PURITAN. [1646-47. 



gave such instruction as, in his ignorance of the 

 language, he was able. Apparently he had been 

 ordered to reconnoitre ; for he presently descended 

 the river from Norridgewock to the first English 

 trading-post, where Augusta now stands. Thence 

 he continued his journey to the sea, and followed 

 the coast in a canoe to the Penobscot, visiting seven 

 or eight English posts on the way, where, to his 

 surprise, he was very well received. At the Pe- 

 nobscot he found several Capuchin friars, under 

 their Superior, Father Ignace, who welcomed him 

 with the utmost cordiality. Eeturning, he again 

 ascended the Kennebec to the English post at 

 Augusta. At a spot three miles above the Indians 

 had gathered in considerable numbers, and here 

 they built him a chapel after their fashion. He 

 remained till midwinter, catechizing and baptizing, 

 and waging war so successfully against the Indian 

 sorcerers, that medicine-bags were thrown away, 

 and charms and incantations were supplanted by 

 prayers. In January the whole troop set off on 

 their grand hunt, Druilletes following them, — 

 " with toil," says the chronicler, " too great to buy 

 the kingdoms of this world, but very small as a 

 price for the Kingdom of Heaven."^ They en- 

 camped on Moosehead Lake, where new disputes 

 with the " medicine-men " ensued, and the Father 

 again remained master of the field. When, after a 

 prosperous hunt, the party returned to the English 

 trading-house, John Winslow, the agent in charge 



1 Lalemant, Relation, 1647, 54. Por an account of this mission, see 

 also Maurault, Histoire des Abenakis, 116-156. 



